Woohoo My First Overclock!!!

1600 @ 1.75Ghz with aggressive memory timings. Here's how:

I'd read up on the XP's and decided that memory bandwidth was my first goal. I didn't want to unlock my CPU if unnecessary and so I set the FSB to 166, CPU voltage to 1.80v, Divider @ 5/2/1 and prayed.

I tested 30 times on Sandra and everything worked. I next tried 3DMark2001 SE and the program would close and go back to Windows at the first test.

I upped to 1.825v and it lasted a few tests before locking up. I upped to 1.85v and ran it 3 times to be sure it was stable. It worked!!!!

Up to now my memory timings were relaxed. I decided to up the ante and set them to their most aggressive. Just to be safe I upped the DDR voltage to 2.75v. I ran memtest 86 to be sure and the system passed with flying colors!

Before overclocking I was getting 3dmark scores around 8200. Now I'm over 10,000! Woohoo!

Good overclock, and yes memory timings make a world of differance on 3dmark, i was getting 9500 max with my geforce 3 ti500 and after changing memory timings and overclocking the card, I got 10,300, this thing would rock with newer card( Next purchase) Awesome Job!!!

mamer

Edit: you need to change your 3dmark in your sig line(Very low!!)

wow pretty impressive stuff for first time ocing!
musta done your howework i bet?
alot of people could keep from killing parts,bad oc's,dissapointment if they to did thier homewrk first.

also very impresive when you hit a road block you knew exactly what coused it and what you needed to change to fix it! kudos!
how long you been reading/studing here before you finally did oc?
im very interested as i know i spent almost a year before i finally did.

I've been learning about overclocking for the past 3 months. 6 months ago I knew nothing about computers. I got a job in IT and have been learning ever since.

Thanks for the kind words.

Yeah nice job.

*Looks at his 4000ish 3dmark score and growls.*

*mutters under his breath* Wanker.

hehe. It's all in good fun.

Great job on the OC!

I've been learning about overclocking for the past 3 months. 6 months ago I knew nothing about computers. I got a job in IT and have been learning ever since.

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lol sorry but, that would a great ad for one of those IT schools (Or an ad for the overclockers hmmm).

Actually I went to Devry and learned nothing for a year. I've learned much more on the job than they ever taught in school. So my commercial would be like this: "Don't go to Devry it's about $40,000 for a nice wall ornament."

I just put in a new 1600+ tonight have her running stable at 166FSB(default voltages, turbo memory), it's an AGOIA 0226 Z, what did you get?